Bug 260487 – xorg-1.5.3 font corruption

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christian Schmitt 2009-02-27 10:08:10 UTC]

After updating to xorg-1.5.3 I see all text on the desktop (KDE-3.5.9), in KDM and on some websites (seamonkey) corrupted. See attached screenshot.

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_Processor-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:35:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/fgfs-gentoo /usr/local/overlays/pkalin"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac alsa asf audiofile bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib css cups curl dbus dvb dvd dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac gif gimpprint glitz gphoto2 hal hdri iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility lame libnotify lirc loop-aes mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pch pcre pdf png ppds pppd qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile speex spl ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xine xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Christian Schmitt 2009-02-27 10:09:13 UTC]

Created attachment 183349 [details]
corruption of the desktop icons text

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-03-02 16:58:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"

Which of these drivers do you use, and which version is that? Compare bug #256586 comment #1.)

[Comment 3 Christian Schmitt 2009-03-02 18:09:38 UTC]

I'm using the nvidia driver and the other bug looks exactly like my problem. Will be able to test it tomorrow.

[Comment 4 Christian Schmitt 2009-03-03 17:11:25 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256586 ***

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-03-03 18:27:31 UTC]

It is not a duplicate. The other bug is about a version bump and this one is about font corruptions fixed in an unstable version of nvidia-drivers.

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-03-03 18:29:08 UTC]

Maybe it's time to stabilise - it's been a month.

[Comment 7 Christian Schmitt 2009-03-07 00:39:13 UTC]

Ok, sorry for closing this bug. The new driver solves the old problem, however, I already noticed a new issue (so far only in seamonkey):

-writing mails or just text like this one here makes the whole line randomly disappear and reappear as I type. 

-rendering issues on websites: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/ is displayed incorrectly. The text under the "Project" and "Description" column is not drendered at all. This is probably the easiest way to reproduce the issue.

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-03-07 16:21:52 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Ok, sorry for closing this bug. The new driver solves the old problem, however,
> I already noticed a new issue (so far only in seamonkey):

That's two new issues, and they don't really relate to this bug report at all, so they shouldn't even be mentioned here.

[Comment 9 Denis Zalewsky 2009-04-04 06:34:27 UTC]

Created attachment 187269 [details]
Fonts and tint panel corruption

[Comment 10 Denis Zalewsky 2009-04-04 06:36:31 UTC]

I am also having this issues after upgrade to xorg-1.5.3 (intel video driver 2.6.1). Additionally some windows taking background for self visualization are also garbled (see tint panel on screenshot at the bottom, it should have clean grey color mixed with background but it has also red horizontal stripes appeared on the 2nd hour). The amount of font and displaying artifacts are increasing with time xorg is working. 
I have attached sreenshot and files with information:
denis-emerge.info
denis-font-issues-1.5.3-screenshot.png
denis-lspci.info

[Comment 11 Denis Zalewsky 2009-04-04 06:37:31 UTC]

Created attachment 187271 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 12 Ricardo Mendoza (RETIRED) 2010-10-04 17:07:07 UTC]

Closing old bugs, this should work now.